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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 445, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 2025, 4:30 PM CDT for De Soto Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 18, 2025, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2025, 5:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County De Soto Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 1:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 18, 3:49 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 3:49 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 1:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Franklin, Red River, Titus | 52 min |
| Oct 18, 1:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Bowie, Titus | 43 min |
| Oct 18, 1:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Cherokee | 49 min |
| Oct 18, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Rusk | 34 min |
| Oct 18, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Bowie | 46 min |
| Oct 18, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Wood | 35 min |
| Oct 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Cass | 47 min |
| Oct 18, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Camp, Titus | 46 min |
| Oct 18, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Panola | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Shelby | 46 min |
| Oct 18, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 59 min |
| Oct 18, 4:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Nacogdoches | 42 min |
| Oct 18, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Nacogdoches | 25 min |
| Oct 18, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Angelina | 32 min |
| Oct 18, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | San Augustine | 28 min |
| Oct 18, 6:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Gregg | 42 min |
| Oct 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Smith | 26 min |
| Oct 18, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Panola, Rusk | 57 min |
| Oct 18, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Sabine | 40 min |
| Oct 18, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Caddo | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Natchitoches, Sabine | 29 min |
| Oct 18, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 37 min |
| Oct 18, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Natchitoches, Red River | 45 min |
| Oct 18, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Union | 31 min |
| Oct 18, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lincoln, Union | 45 min |
| Oct 18, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Bienville | 38 min |
| Oct 18, 5:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Caddo | 43 min |
| Oct 18, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln, Union, Webster | 39 min |
| Oct 18, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Jackson | 50 min |
| Oct 18, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Red River | 28 min |
| Oct 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Union | 26 min |
| Oct 18, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Bienville | 29 min |
| Oct 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 55 min |
| Oct 18, 4:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 31 min |
| Oct 18, 5:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Columbia | 54 min |
| Oct 18, 6:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Miller | 25 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.